2014 Bentley continental GT - Right
this moment, the Flying Spur and your Crown Vic is a couple of spots about the
roadside. The senses are saved to high inform as we approach the actual scene;
we all drive by simply at just 65 mph-likely setting the land-speed slowness
record for Bentleys right now. Expecting the officer is going to be occupied
providing his address for some time; we all recheck the rearview reflection and
confirm that we all remain unparsed. In advance of the attractive hood, which
takes care of a 616-hp, twin-turbocharged W-12, the actual
Amargosa Desert is in surreal splendor.
It drags us in.
The 8 gears of your Bentley's
impressive ZF 8HP transmitting can be chosen manually by way of column-mounted
paddle shifters or even via the centrally attached gear selector, which intern
requires you to definitely push this away to up shift and take it to you for
downshifts. The particular eight proportions certainly maintain a driver
active. The adjustments never finishes, until you-with some extent of
humiliation-concede that the gear box knows much better anyway. However there
are concrete benefits of possessing eight rates: Highway gas mileage is
believed at 20 miles per gallon, although just about any uphill exercises
and/or forceful velocity send distance plummeting.
The actual 616-hp Speed seems
even more extraordinary than the typical W-12 and the soundtrack may be further
increased by choosing the transmission’s Manual or perhaps Sport setting. The
difference might be recognized effortlessly even from idle, and according to
engine insert and speed, your exhaust notice oscillates between a snarling bass
and the bloodcurdling wail.
At a projected 5550 pounds, your
Bentley isn’t a sports vehicle. The structures are derived from the particular
Volkswagen Phaeton, maybe the most exceedingly engineered high end sedan at any
time. But inspire of the Continental Speed’s considerable weight, it is quite
pleased to play on shapely, secondary streets. Bentley has reinforced and
lowered the actual suspension simply by 0.4 " and retuned the guiding, the
stability-control program has been reprogrammed for a lot more brief and exact
action. Because on various other Continentals, the all-wheel-drive product is
biased on the rear, transmitting 60 percent of the particular twist aft.
The actual Speed’s air
suspensions can be fine-tuned through several settings, and even sportiest is
comfortable ample to hide your driver’s evil objectives from naive
passengers-until it is far too late to make a complaint. Entering 4 corners,
the directing is accurate and on the light side. Your extremely hard
convertible behaves to fill transitions with speed, and it can be located
easily although cornering. Under steer is finally present yet has been
diminished compared with reduced versions.
The not compulsory carbon-ceramic
brakes don’t chunk as challenging as one would certainly expect, however braking
functionality will be better with summertime tires. The test automobile was
installed with Dunlop winter auto tires to cope with your more-frigid portions
of each of our drive path, and they tolerate some obligation for the occasional
small judder in the tire. That’s all about 2014
Bentley continental GT.